Given the current situation in Iraq with the Isis terrorist organization, and their barbaric practices that are too gruesome to mention here, do you think Bob will ever sing his masterpiece Isis live again?

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Oh, I expect he is in a right old pickle in case anyone in the audience misconceives an allegory invoking an egyptian fertility goddess with an Islamic terrorist outfit. perhaps he can include some kind of preface to the song to make his intentions perfectly clear . . . unless, of course, the song is in reality yet another example of his outstanding prophesy skills (pertaining in particular to the middle east).

Oh, I expect he is in a right old pickle in case anyone in the audience misconceives an allegory invoking an egyptian fertility goddess with an Islamic terrorist outfit. perhaps he can include some kind of preface to the song to make his intentions perfectly clear . . . unless, of course, the song is in reality yet another example of his outstanding prophesy skills (pertaining in particular to the middle east).

If Bob Dylan cannot sing one of his best songs any more for fear of upsetting the terrorists the terrorists have won. The way it ought to be is Bob can sing the song any time he pleases.

Furthermore the way it ought to be is instead of the out-dated and ill-conceived Masters of War Bob would come out a new song like Masters of War to reflect the realities of today. That is, if Bob is serious about being in favor of everything good and against everything bad like he is thought to be.

If Bob Dylan cannot sing one of his best songs any more for fear of upsetting the terrorists the terrorists have won. The way it ought to be is Bob can sing the song any time he pleases.

Furthermore the way it ought to be is instead of the out-dated and ill-conceived Masters of War Bob would come out a new song like Masters of War to reflect the realities of today. That is, if Bob is serious about being in favor of everything good and against everything bad like he is thought to be.

He opens most of his current concerts with "Things Have Changed". Is the theme of this song not that such as you suggest is futile? Additionally, GW Bush probably thought he was "in favor of everything good and against everything bad" too. In the unlikely event of anything Dylan might sing would have even the remotest effect politically, it is as probable that the words of this American Jew would simply provoke some bearded Islamist somewhere to cut some child's head off. This is the world as it is. The realisation probably induced Dylan to quit protest music.

They never called themselves Isis in the first place. That was just the name the western media created to make us remember easier. In fact, these horrible people speak arabic and call themselves “Daash”, which is an acronym for “Dulat al-Islam fi al-Iraq wal-Sham” – “the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria”

They never called themselves Isis in the first place. That was just the name the western media created to make us remember easier. In fact, these horrible people speak arabic and call themselves “Daash”, which is an acronym for “Dulat al-Islam fi al-Iraq wal-Sham” – “the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria”

Yes, I know - but they now call themselves [the Arabic for] the Islamic State, so it ain't [the Arabic for] I.S.I.S. any more's what I was saying. And yes, they're truly horrible people. And levity on anything that concerns them is tricky.

The worst thing about an unspeakable tragedy is that it ruins your experience of listening to a 40 year old Bob Dylan song!!

BTW "ISIL" is becoming a more accepted term, which is good. Hopefully the effect of these unfortunate events will not be long lasting - on Dylan fans or anyone else. I said to a young and militantly anti-war friend that it kind of makes you want to blow these people up. He agreed.

I lately hear a lot about the brutality of ISIS with pictures and videos of people severing heads and so on... While I by no means want to justify or defend ISIS, the hypocrisy of the reporting and the commenting is beyond funny. American planes fly high over a cities and throws bombs sometimes with depleted uranium on people not only severing body parts by kinetic energy like ISIS but also burning people alive and poisoning their ecosystem with radio active uranium dust targeting not only future human generations for hundreds of thousands of years but also the animals that share the ecosystem. the nerve of America to lecture the world about brain washing and barbarism... the arrogance... The difference between severing civilians heads by a sword and a bomb is that a sword is more accurate in killing the intended victim and causes less collateral damage than a x bomb. The other differences are that the videos and pictures are classified and the coward dogs kill from a distance and never look the women and children they slaughter in the eye...

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Given the current situation in Iraq with the Isis terrorist organization, and their barbaric practices that are too gruesome to mention here, do you think Bob will ever sing his masterpiece Isis live again?

His ability (or lack of ability) to sing the original melodies in the original keys has never stopped him from doing stuff live, it's never seemed like remotely a factor, so I doubt it is here. For whatever reason, Desire and Street-Legal were mostly left behind within a couple years. Who knows, maybe current events will remind him of the song, and he'll sing it out of spite. Can't let the terrorists win, after all.

His ability (or lack of ability) to sing the original melodies in the original keys has never stopped him from doing stuff live, it's never seemed like remotely a factor, so I doubt it is here. For whatever reason, Desire and Street-Legal were mostly left behind within a couple years. Who knows, maybe current events will remind him of the song, and he'll sing it out of spite. Can't let the terrorists win, after all.

Yeah, I know, but "Isis" is such a forceful song.These days, he sings everything in a whisper.

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